Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitudethe unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on divine aid.

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who is calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering.

Every man must bear his own burden, and it is a fine thing to see any one trying to do it manfully; carrying his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in a way which makes you hope that he has taken for his pattern the greatest of all sufferers.

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious businessall who have got a task to do, a work to finishbear the burden till God gives the signal for reposetill the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned.

It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles.